SALENTO

 The origins And' much difficult one to establish, with precision, to when they go back the first human takeovers in the peninsula salentina, but is unquestionable, however, than this earth it was lived sin from the preistoria, like which remainders of focolai testify rests, human boneses and of mammals and instruments in silice recovered in the Romanelli cove, the cove of the Zinzulusa and the cove of the Devils to Porto Badisco. Testimonies that come made to go back to the Advanced Paleolitico, that is between twelve and diecimila years ago. The splendid parietal rupestri paintings of the Cove of the Red deers, to Badisco port, constitute one of the artistic shapes more important of the Neolithic one in Europe. With popolarsi of the rivers of the Mediterranean, they appear also in the Salento around to IV the millenium a.C the first villages of huts, above all along the ionic coasts, given over to the working of the ceramics, one before shape, this, of “protourbana” civilization. Between the III and II the millenium a.C the metallurgy rivoluziona the neolithic handicraft until reaching the age of the Bronze. To this period they go back the Dolmen and the Menhir that are found in the south Salento. The Menhir is of the rectangular columns, of irregular shape, conficcate in the cliff. More diffuse they are the Dolmen, monuments you form to you from stone slabs, present also on the island of Malta. It is believed that these had one sure religious function for the preistorici villages of the peninsula salentina.   The antiquity The Salento, to peak in the Mediterranean, has been from always goal accustoms them of people marinare, adventurer and fuggiasche that, beyond journeying, you stablily to you often insediavano, introducing the uses and the customs of their lands. The Cretesi was first, between the people of the Mediterranean, to trade with the aborigines salentini, tightening with they cultural and social relationships. Subsequently, also the Micenei reached in the Salento, therefore as Dionigi di Alicarnasso tells, and founded Hiria, than second more it would be Oria and second others would have been be a matter of one city near Patù. According to an ancient legend, brought back from Erodoto and confirmed from Tucidite, they were just Cretesi and Micenei, allocated in the southern Puglia, to giving life to the Messapi Japigi. Messapi means “people between the two seas”. Other sources, instead, make to go back the Messapi to one mixture between Cretesi and Illiri, people, this last, coming from one from the North of Albania. The Messapi which Alezio, Veretum, Immense, Rudiae and Manduria founded numerous cities. They recognized from endured the cultural and economic supremacy of the Greek neighbors and had in fact intense contacts with people of the Attica and the Peloponneso. Their God of the Batas light, venerato in the cove of the Porcinara, in the outskirtses of Leuca, subsequently was assimilated the Greek God Zeus. The goddess Thena, venerata near Caesarean Port, in the ancient village of Port of call of Furno, came assimilated from the Greeks to the goddess Artemis (Diana). The only literary trace of the messapica culture that the history memories was left from the poet Fifth Ennio from Rudiae, while nearly nothing remains of the messapica language. In the 706 a.C the Spartani founded Taranto. Archita from Taranto, philosopher Pythagorean, governed the city and said at polis a moment of particular development, resuming the dominion on the gulf, to which but it followed an express decline determined from the arrival of the Roman. After alternate vicissitudes in the 272 a.C. Rome defeated Taranto and its allied Pirro, king of the Epiro, pertaining to the dynasty of the Molossi.Questa defeat marks the end of the Magna Greece and the splendor of the Polis localized between the province of C#lecce and Taranto. Livio Andronico, symbol of the associate-cultural development of Taranto, the first one translate the Odissea in Latin, was lead enslaved to Rome, but it succeeded to free thanks to its works like comic and dramatic teatrale author. With the Roman, One drinks a toast divenne the more important port of southern Italy, the door of East of Rome to which it came connected from the way Appia, which it followed the construction of the way Emilia, the way Gellia and subsequently the ways Traiane and Adriane. The foundation of C#lecce, the ancient Lupiae, laughed them to the imperial age. Risen to approximately 3 nearly Km from the messapica Rudiae, must its demographic increment to Adrian emperor, that it made to construct the porticciolo of Saint Cataldo and, sure, the amphitheater, that it could receive approximately 20 mila persons. More small, but entire conserved, is the theatre to platea centers them, that it could accommodate 5 mila persons. In roman age mostly agricultural the local economy divenne, was implants uliveti and vineyards to you.  

Seas and City   

The Salento, with its lengthened shape, is insinuated between two of the beautifulr seas of the entire Mediterranean basin: the Jonio, than with the Gulf of Taranto, lambisce the western coast, mostly low and characterized from a harmonious large reef alternation and spiagge, and the Adriatic that lambisce the coast orients them, rich of tightened marine insenature, coves and, often, characterized from high reefs to peak on the sea. The grips insenature and the high reefs are the landscape that is met going back from Leuca to Otranto. Only more to north flat and sabbiosa the coast ridiventa, with enormous spiagge, ambita goal of bathing tourists and. Incastonate on the rivers of these seas rises city beautifulst that boast one history millenarian; sure the most known for the history and the beauty of the places they are Otranto that, for centuries, has given the name to the province, Castro, more to south, true and own roccaforte a mail to defense of our coasts, Leuca, the citizen more to south than Puglia and, at last, Gallipoli, pearl of the Jonio, true and own city fortress, whose ancient nucleus rises, with all the castle, on a island connected to the mainland from a bridge. From Finibus Terrae, than erge like a lookout on the Japigio cape, the leggendaria “Centopietre”, of megalitica construction to testimony, small shape tempio from much Messapica deduction, in Patù, or the castle of XV the century of Blank, the facades of the beautiful rinascimentali palaces and the prospects of the churches of Alessano, it is reached Tricase, where erge majestic and sublime the Vallonea Oak, said of the “One hundred Knights”, true dolmen living itself and only copy, in its species, all the Mediterranean basin. Receptivity tourist, in the past few years, is remarkablly increased, because the immense and charming shoreline has been demonstrated in a position to accommodating numerous tourists whom they want to enjoy air salubre, of clean sea and calm, but also to know the rich of Mediterranean spot (forests of oaks and lecci, bay landscaped patrimony and carob tree, corbezzolo, mortella and then still of grass and aromatic shrubs us like the thymus, the rosmarino, the mint, the salvia, etc) of “Pajare”, shelters like the cove “Romanelli”, the “Zinzulusa”, of the “Devil” or the cove “Matrona” in Marina Greenhouse of Tricase, accessible only from the beautiful sea and for the glares of the solar beams in the water that is colored of blue inks like in the cove of Goats. The jonica coast (Felloniche, S. Gregorio, Tower I go, Tower Poles, etc) is instead, to ollow itself of sand kilometers with a sea from the cangianti inks from the intense blue, to the celestino, the green. The jonico shoreline continuously is improved for one tourist receptivity of great national and international proportions. Leuca comprises the ancient Japigio cape, that it divides the Jonio sea from that Adriatic. The etimologia of its name, from the Lucos Greek = white man, dazzling, exactly recalls the characteristic splendor of laughing its landscape. Exposed to noon, it is enclosed between last propaggini of the Greenhouses salting some, final with Ristola tip and the Meliso tip. Ideal Spiagge, shorelines, navy and insenature, places for vacations dipped in the quiet ones of a fiabesco and incontaminato landscape. Solitary towers, ancient masserie, dumb testimonies of life and tradition, ideal places in order to discover to antichi values and genuine feelings. The Salento, door of east, begin to C#lecce and end just on the heel of Italy, moved to East like if a Greek God, in order to amuse itself, had pulled towards of himself that boot. Earth of Otranto called the Salento, earth of Normanni. And citta' that it gave to them the name was one low power duffle-coat pointed out on the East with its basiliani monasteri like Saint Nicholas di Casole, one of the more cultured and sophisticated places of Europe of the two hundred. Them precious manuscripts were copied, spoke them Greek and Latin, it landed them from Paris like from Bisanzio. The monastero of Casole exercised from the XI to the XV sec. in all the Meridione d' Italy one anticipatrice cultural function of the humanistic phenomenon of Italy center-northerner. Here a operoso center of studies bloomed that collected the antichi codes Greek-Latins. Near the casolano scriptorium it rose in 1160, for before the time in Europe, the House of the Student, poichè the second one bloomed to London in 1183. The school of Casole divenne the point of encounter of the students of East and the West, which exchanged the codes, the experiences and the knowledge. The route followed from the legions roman in order to o in Greece and Epiro was the way Appia from Rome to Drinks a toast and its successive extension until to Otranto from whose port sailed the ships from war like those cargo vessels. In IV sec. the Costantino Rome-Otranto-Costantinopoli created the street artery. Otranto divenne ring of union between the two Rome. The Greek language, the presence of Jewish colonies, the geographic position and the street net cosmopolita city of traffic, commerce and culture made of Otranto one. In all the Salento a particular air is breathed. A firm air, made also of presences never very cleared. Earth of dolmen and menhir, of situated preistoriche coves of extraordinary importance and archaeological, of places that seem magical. Earth celebrated from the most rinomati writers which Virgilio (Enea in order to found Rome disembarks in the Salento), Horace Walpole, English writer of the 1700 with the novel “The castle of Otranto”; earth object of historical and anthropological studies from part of foreign students of international reputation. Pizzica E' difficult to say what is the Pizzica. Just for having an idea, in the past it was a rituale of cure from the bite of the tarantola; a group of men with tamburelli, a guitar, a organetto diatonico continually played (also for many days) finchè the tarantata one, with a ossessivo dance and repetitive, it did not exaust loads with the poison. Today it is a rituale for the ethnic festivities in which migliaia of persons they are met with tamburelli and other acoustic typical instruments in order to play and to dance together. Ancient tradition of musico-dance-therapy salentina, today a lot practiced to cultural, recreational, therapeutic scope. Until little decades ago it served to cure “tarantate”, women (but also men) that during the jobs in campaign they came vices from the tarantola and they drove crazy. It was necessary then to call the suonatori-healers who executed this ritmata music, repetitive, ossessiva that supports one be of trance. Element base and also symbol of the Pizzica is the tamburello leccese; sound so as to to give to the rhythm base, determined, constant and others you strike yourself in terzine that they make also to play the sonagli. The phenomenon of the tarantismo is much immense and complex one, object of several study from decades of investigators, etnologi, but not only, between which Ernesto De Martino and therefore it is sure reductive to describe it in two lines here. After the years oxen of the television colonization, today the neo-tarantismo spreads between the young people, in conviviali situations (sacred and festivities in masserie), with this simple and liberatorio dance (trance-dance) or of courtship. We are in the Salento (prov. of C#lecce, East of Italy); warm evening of summer is one, has wants to make four knows, to discover something to you: what we make? We go to one sacred where they make the Pizzica. Festivity in public square between luminarie, stalls, persons to I take a walk; we feel of music, we go. We feel a beautiful rhythm more and more clearly, we raise the step… Eccoci! A circle of persons who play the tamburelli typical salentini and others in the circle that dances… Once in the Salento the job in the fields was diffused; it was not rare to be bites from the tarantola, than in these lands burned lived well. The pizzicate persons began to star badly and the only way in order to recover them, from at least a millenium, was to play, to leave that they danced until “recovering”. In our century then the western medicine, the psichiatria has arrived tv, that it tried to cure the “sick ones”, but the last farmacologiche discoveries were only new intrugli chemical, very far from “recovering”. Who could recover was the suonatori, common persons that in the occasions they pulled outside their instruments. The orchestrina was formed from tamburelli, a guitar and one fisarmonica, violino, that they played the Pizzica. It was therefore popular music, than anyone it could play; music was not fine to if same, but it was therapeutic; in reality, beyond the bite of the spider, there was one strong wants to be expressed, to free an energy that the community oppressed. Today, at a distance of many years, the phenomenon ridiventa strongly: in the Salento and not only there is more and more wants of Pizzica: one etnomedicina, a free dance that rilassa body and mind; a way in order to be with to vecchietti loaded with history; a way in order to resume a way to express themselves and to amuse themselves primitivo; and beyond music, the dance, the songs, a something mysteriously human, than from the night of the times perpetual… The Salento and popular Music Are sure that, in order to comprise a earth, its culture and the customs of its people it is important to listen to of music. In the last period the salentini and, in particular, the young people riscoperto music of the fathers. Practically us it is shrewed that the sonorità warm and solar proposals from popular music do not have null to envy to the very more blasonata music that has given the origins to the rock modern. Indeed, the Salento, for its position centers them in the Mediterranean is, from centuries, the natural point of encounter of various cultures: the sonorità that derives some is the happy one connubio of ancient Greek musics, bizantine and Arabs who constitute, with, the cultural kernel of the river basin of the “sea nostrum” of imperial Roman memory. Between the musicalità proposed from the folklore, the “Pizzica” is one riscoperta from part of the young people of the Salento: it is, practically, the ancestors of the tarantella Neapolitan. The Salento is, for its part, the native land of the culture of the “tarantismo” that is the culture of “taranta”. “Taranta” it is, in particular, that rather large spider that hides in gorges and the fractures of the earth and of cliffs of our province that, second the popular sideboard “bites” or,” “better pizzica” (from which, exactly, the name given to music…). According to the same popular sideboards, from the bite of the tarantola one recovered alone thanks to music: the “pizzica” and the dance that give it of it derive. Like the tarantella, the “pizzica” is born like “curative” dance of the bite inferto from “taranta”. Tarante and basilisk (of Luisa Mogavero) A phenomenon much famous that have provoke the interest of numerous student. The tarantismo, that is the case of persons who, vices from spiders or snakes, abandon to dances and particular behaviors, is legacy to atavistic traditions and in sure measure it has arrived till now. Luigi Chiriatti, musician and student, supply in its works some elucidations in merit. Various the hypotheses on the origins, riconducibili however to three fundamental traditions. The first one is what ago to come down from the dionisismo: the Salento is in fact earth in which strongly it has been the infuence of the coming from cults from Greece. The second is what it attributes a native origin to it; hypothesis suffragata from the archaeological diggings of Roca, relati you to the messapica age, where it is possible to find a simbolismo similar to that one of the tarantismo. Third current of thought is that one of a feminine line of the tarantismo that considers as dynamics social constructed it to use and consumption of the women, with tradition whom it leave from the cult of the goddess Atena. Such hypothesis is confirmed from the fact that the symbols associates you to the goddess is same of S. the Paul, protecting of the tarantati ones. Extending from the precise origin, what it can be found with certainty is the presence of one natural commistione between aganism and Christianity. Legacy to the sideboard in the mitologica figure of the basilisk (name of rectums them fabulous characteristic for the wide laminar crests, erected them that door on the long head and the body - the males also on the tail - the ancient legends attributed the power to it to kill with the look) and to that one of the velenosi spiders, the bite of taranta (the term with which they are identified indifferently aracnidi velenosi and snakes) provokes to sudorazione, of stomach, palpitation and spasmi badly muscular. In order to get rid from the venefica action of the bite, tradition it wants that tarantato the dances and songs until the moment in which S. Paul grants the grace of the guarigione. E' just for wanting of S. Paul who every year, in correspondence of the festivity of the saint, “pizzicato” falls back under the effect of the poison and must complete the same coreutico-musical rituale. Happened the concession of the grace of the guarigione, these must then o to Galatina, where one is found nail head dedicated to the saint. The casuistry of the tarantati ones sees one strongly dominanza of women like subject bearers of the phenomenon and the period of the summery harvest like moment privileged for the bite. The motivation, a time attributed to the fact that the men mietevano the grain with makes us while the women collected the ears fallen for earth and therefore mainly they were exposed to the bite of the spiders or the snakes, in effects is from searching in the living conditions of the women, repressed sluices and, succubi of a social order limiting in all the fields, above all that sexual one. The searches conduct from Ernesto De Martino in the 1959 have confirmed the thesis second which to some sporadic cases of real latrodectismo, a clean majority of cases corresponds in which the bite it is a justification to the drainage of tensions and frustrations characterize them. The woman, therefore, is tarantata because not bitten from the spider, but because gotten depressed and inhibited, and she finds in the tarantismo the possibility of a vent that, re-entering in a cultural order, protegge the carrier from the brand of the mental disorder. Georges Lapassade, in 1981 in an interview, said: “The tarantismo is entirety exorcism and adorcismo. E' a ritualizzato way to espungere from himself the negative, but is also something that moves - as we find in many cultures pays some - from the requirement to integrate the evil. The tarantato one makes intermediary of the alterità, of an inner way that appears popolato of many various voices, outside from a hierarchical permanent order. It enters in a dimension of means, for which it becomes as the space and the voice of the alterità, the diversity, a divinity that speaks many languages”. Tarantato the dance and sings, and the song is a dialogue with divinity (S. Paul, the Madonna), a dialogue directed in which the tarantato one it nearly carries out a role privileged regarding the bystanders, becoming a semidio or one sciamano. Always in the cited interview, Lapassade supported that the tarantismo is relative of the coribantismo and not of the dionismo, in how much if the second incarnates positive values you of reunion of the various one in unit, of agreement of the opposite ones, the first one incarnates the diversity, the contrast, the dissonance, the noise. As in the every coribantismo God it represents a peculiar world of values and perceptive that richiam to particular colors and sounds, therefore the tarantato one rapporta to a “spider” that answers to a sure name (are come communicated from the taranta same in the course of the ritual), that it prefers some colors and a sure musical rhythm. During the ritual the coreuta we danced, following a choreography invented at the moment (taranta the guide and ago “to weave” the dance), second a particular rhythm (and not others) and it is surrounded of the colors that its prefers taranta. Music of accompanyment to the ritual, “is pizzica-tarantata”, much somigliante, in its ability to create trans and the dissosciation of the personality, to the blues and the macumba. Not to confuse with the “pizzica-pizzica”, executed instead only in edonistiche and conviviali occasions like festivities and weddings. The pizzica, like all the songs salentini, metrically is constructed for being played with the tamburello, than of it is also the fundamental instrument and it is a coacervo of simbolismi: the wood circle represents the world but also the magical-rituale circle in which the ritual is carried out; the sonagli of branch that disturbs the marked the rhythm sound, the disorder, the irrazionale, the ugly one, the dark one, but also the truth; and the skin represents the ritmica constant that serves reintegrare the taranta in the order of the things and the daily life. Today the tarantismo cases are extremely sporadic, it limits to you to the little old ones tarantati, even if permane, in the bands less acculturated and disagiate economic conditions, a sure subjection and fear in the comparisons of a phenomenon therefore difficult to explain and on which also science, sometimes, it does not know like pronouncing itself. One new shape of tarantismo is being developed and spreading, and is that one practiced from young people, above all pertaining to the medium bands, than (in the public manifestations like in the festivities of knows to you, where groups are exhibited that ripropongono the traditional musical repertorio) search the taranta therefore that lead them to the location of one personal identity, social and cultural and also (like in perhaps passed) to the vent of the frustrations therefore to re-enter in the social order for means of an other way. Scientifically speaking, instead, with “the tarantola” term, the pugliese spider designates itself today. It was coined in XIV the century, when it appeared in tarantino the phenomenon of the “tarantolismo”, that is of that violent psychomotor agitation thought consequence of the bite of the tarantola. The morsicati ones - “tarantolati” - entered in one be of mental and motoria agitation for which they danced in way stirred violently to the sound dl whirling musics, that they were then calls “tarantelle”, able to bring they a benefit, second the legends that went diffusing itself. Before that age, in the roman world, the nostrano spider called “phalangium” (from the Greek “phalanghion”), from which the Italian “falangio” still today used (curious also for the bulbosa plant thought the antidote against the bite of the tarantola). Not there were terms for tarantolismo, tarantolati and tarantella because those phenomena did not exist and corresponding music. It was in 1683, than Sanguinetti, a doctor, it was undergone voluntarily to the bite of one tarantola, gaining of, only a reddening of the part and demonstrating as the tarantolismo was not provoked from the bite of the spider of Taranto. The same one, in 1742, made Serrao, doctor of the king of Naples, reconfirming the experiment of Saguinetti. For this the tarantolismo did not stop, that it continued imperversare in the Meridione, interesting doctors, etnologi, psychologists and the Church (was believed next to the diabolic property). From the zoologico point of view, the pugliese tarantola was christened Tarantula at first apullae and later on became Lycosa tarentuia for the game of priority and sinonimie that a lot piacciono I acted zoologi. E' one of the larger and beautifulr spiders of Italy, along also more than 4 cm, has massive shapes, vellutate and a livery gray rossiccia with it complicates black designs to you and with strong anellate legs of yellow and tawny. It always lives in the land, dipped in its lair that digs alone, formed from one long approximately 20cm and wide rectilinear gallery a pair, than carried out abruptly towards the bottom describing covered complicating. It upholsters the silk lair, and for proteggersi from the disturbatori, of it it closes the opening with steles, disseccata grass and twigs held with from one silk weft. By day acquatta in its lair, to the twilight it exits to hunting: it bites prede between head and the neck in order to obtain ll more turned out express and, once died the victim, if it calmly sucks it in its lair, leaving hygienically the rests outside of the house door. During the season of the loves, the males besiege the females. Once the wedding to the usual way of the spiders concluded - without sexual conjunction, the males collect the sperm in a chela and they deposit it on the female - the spouses is separated. The female, after some time, deposits eggs fertilized in a cocoon, the eggs schiudono and hundreds of ragnetti exit from the cocoon and they scramble up on the mother, than if them door to spasso or hunting. With the approssimars of the winter, mother and sons they are closed in house and they attend the spring digiunando. Life from spiders. The bite of the tarantola is not dangerous for the man because to the maximum it produces reddening and a little pain. Gastronomia Salentina In the Salento the kitchen is like the landscape: essential thing. But not for this less evocative one for the many sapori aromas of pietanze with Greek and Spanish callbacks. Poppies (paparina or fried) cu the vulie to nivere, black turnips, snails (sciurmaneddhi) and cozze piccinne, olives, grain, raspberries (pampasciuni), bread I confirm, peas buckets, sea anemones (urdichelle), pupiddhi, romice, chili pepper, seeds of melone (semata), meat of noble fin (cozzapinna), granchi (wild cavure), thistles us, interiora of lamb (gnommareddhi), blood of pig (sanghunazzu), puccia, frisella (frasedda), grain in leaf through fried (cautunatu) bread in zuppa of serum and refuse of annealed (fiuruta), annealed “scante”, sciuscella, salamura cooked, spunzali, sciotta de pisce, bread frittu, fave clean and cicore, foje reste, turnips to the oiu fattu, futtimariti (frittelle of pastella with capers, tonno, stockfish, fiuri de cocuzza, anchovies, paparussi allu capaseddu), rattate (the flavored grattugiato ice with sweet syrups and color), mustazzoli, purcante, purceddhuzzi, paparussi to you fried, sarsa made to house (mo nci on the buvatte ones!), granita de cafè cu the cream, they are only some of the ingredients and the poor plates that make the kitchen salentina rich. As draft of humble fish is looked at generally, of refuse meats of legumi buckets with which, instead, lofty pietanze with never fat condimenti are prepared species for the paste made in house with semola of hard and dark grain. The sagne “ncannulate, the minchialeddi, raskateddi, the mass, the cagghjubbi, flavored with gravy of granchi or simple tomato or with the legumi are how much more share can be imagined, more olympic like sapori and less harmful to the health because the only present fat person in the gravies is that one of the olive oil. And” with the olives an other leccornia: the puccia (vulijata). E' a typical companatico bread of the poor kitchen of the peasants, in fact bread draft cooked with small black olives and saporitissime, onion, zucchina and, chili pepper. Insomma the substantial one merenda of the grain winnower, the potatore and the fisherman to lot in order to dampen the hunger with good sapori and then the evening to house to consume to plate of “mass cu them ciciri” (pastes to shape of tagliatelle and ceci) of winter. And of summer friselle (or the Frise). Biscottato E' this to bread, rising of hard grain rubber ring or of the luff to longest hard conservation like to stone and that s'intenerisce after to have been held in water for loads second and, giving back tenderness, ripropone with its good sapore of grain to exalt with tomatoes to the thread, cetrioli, origano, rucola, onion, oil of olives, know them and chili pepper. Sea Other sapori prelibati of to are “scapece”, plate of Arabic origin the askipecia and that it seems it appealed to to Federico II of Svevia very. To Castrignano we call it “a' sarsa”: draft of alicette (or pupiddhi or vope) fried put in botte with to pickling frosts of knows them, vinegar, garlic, perfumed grass, pan grattato and saffron. Exquisite and much rare that they to are found halo during the popular festivities. Like pure when they to are found loads, they to are consumed raw with one spremuta of lemon or fried the noble fins. For wines to there is the embarrassment of the choice: above all red, but also rosati, rosatelli, white men of Matino, Salice Salentino, Galatina, of corposi Nardò, vinosi, freschi, steal, paglierini, amber, buckets, frizzanti, liquorosi, primiti and novels to you. That other? (the grape harvest of 1997 has been the best one of last the 50 years. Always freschi Sapori Mediterranean Verdure wild, fish and crustaceans (lobsters, curly, cozze black, small cuttlefishes, triglie, squids, pupiddhi, polpi etc) made bread and pastes in house (hauled, vulijata, cavateddi, mass cu ciceri them or Zuppa di Orazio, sagne ncannulate) meats (Turcinieddhi - involtini of interiora of lamb, Gnommareddhi - involtini of trippa onion fillings, cheese and prezzemolo; salsicce, castrated, sanguinaccio - blood suino with cervella of pig or year-old calf; Sciurmaneddhi mpannati - famous snails collections after rains; Cozze Piccinne - lessate lumachine and then flavored with oil, garlic and origano; wine and oils D.o.c.: Saint Maria di Leuca receives the visitor presentandogli one extraordinary table imbandita from the natures. Sea choice The of the plates is to alternated itself of capacities of and campaign. Unparalleled the prescriptions made up of fish: to taste the alici, to hold and small, sold from the fishermen as soon as it disembarks to you and to taste the polpo goffered and cooked in pignata to slow to fire. From september ricciole, fishing-linens, tonni they to are the better ingredients for an unsurpassable one grilled in river to the sea. Leuchese But the higher expression of the kitchen is the lobsters fished with the nasse and “pupiddhu”, saporitissimo accompanied blue fish from the sea linguine to the curly of. Sea From to the campaign the step is short: the abundance of verdure, the best ones of Italy, coltivat and finanche in the terrazzamenti on the coast which the cicorie, the tops of turnips, the carciofi, the fave, the cauliflowers, the potatoes zuccherine, the asparagi of field, the lampascioni, the tomatoes, the paparina (or fried), is amazing and the oil extravergine of olive of it exalts all the goodness. And to the buongustai they will not escape sure, binds together to the best D.o.c wines salentini (the rosato one to you to serve to 14° and the red one to 18/20°), hard grain pastes the made in house (cu llu mannalaturu), the bread cooked in the firewood furnace and dolciumi of all the shapes (Cupeta, Cotognata, Mmurfettate - cartellate ripiene of marmellata of grape), the colors and the sapori, you use with the liqueur of fico of India or with S. Domenico, ancient specialty of the friars of the convent of S. Domenico